When was the problem of pain published

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Write a review Rate this item: 1 2 3 4 5. Preview this item Preview this item. And what about the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? Lewis offers answers to these crucial questions and shares his hope and wisdom to help heal a world hungering for a true understanding of human nature. Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private.

Save Cancel. Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain? Reviews User-contributed reviews Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Be the first. Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Tags Add tags for "The problem of pain". Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

Good and evil. Providence and government of God -- Christianity. Philosophy, Medical. User lists with this item 19 LIB. CCP items by laqiali updated about 2 days ago. All rights reserved. The two texts compliment one another by identifying parts of our struggle, the intellectual and physical difficulty life will bring, and how pain can bend us toward a loving God if we let it.

Pain leads us somewhere — to something. That something is a life of faith. How do we believe unless we recognize how frail our efforts have become to maintain everything just so? Lewis says that we must understand our fallenness. He interprets the fall of humanity not only as an opportunity for evil to thrive, but also the choice to ignore the purpose of pain. Christianity creates the problem of pain because it provides hope for righteousness and love.

Without the revelation that God loves us, the painful world would make sense. Pain would have no cause. When we run headlong into God, Lewis contends that pain is demanded.